Europe and Central Asia

Norway – Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF)

BirdLife Partner

Founded in 1957
Members: 8778
Staff: 10
Sandgata, Trondheim, NO, 7012
Tel. +47 7384 1640; Fax +47 7384 1641
nof@birdlife.no
www.birdlife.no
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Mission of the organisation

To protect nature, and especially fauna relating to birds, and to constitute a link between people interested in birds in Norway.

Key Activities

  • Protection of bird habitats
  • Running conservation-related projects on several threatened and near-threatened birds species both within Norway and abroad
  • Public information on the significance of protecting birds
  • Publishing membership magazines

 

News

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28 May 2018

LIFE is beautiful...in Italy

Our Italian partner LIPU has been awarded one of the EU’s most prestigious nature prizes – ‘Best LIFE Project’ - for their stunning work to create an ecological corridor between the Campo dei Fiori massif and Ticino...
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Europe and Central AsiaItaly
31 Jan 2018

#OceanAlert: Between the Devil and the deep blue sea

BirdLife Europe is on high #OceanAlert: as a direct result of fishing, tens of thousands of threatened seabirds, turtles and marine mammals needlessly perish in European waters each year.
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Europe and Central Asia
15 Dec 2017

In the bleak midwinter

In his editorial of this month’s edition of the Europe & Central Asia newsletter, Christopher Sands looks for rays of hope to brighten up ‘the bleak mid-winter’...
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Europe and Central AsiaMontenegro
The Black-legged Kittiwake is a symptom of a greater problem for all Atlantic birds © Colum Clarke
14 Dec 2017

Cliffs lying barren: why we can't afford to ignore the Kittiwake crash

“Out of sight, out of mind” - the alarming decline of the Black-legged Kittiwake provides a painful lesson that The High Seas – open ocean outside national jurisdiction – need urgent protection. But hope is at hand with...
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Europe and Central AsiaGreenlandNorwayUnited Kingdom
13 Aug 2018

Champions of the Flyway – from dream to Game Changer?

In the editorial of our August newsletter, Jonathan Meyrav from SPNI (BirdLife Israel) looks back on five stunning years of Champions of the Flyway – the friends made, the money raised and the birds saved.
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Europe and Central AsiaIsrael
28 Sep 2018

#SaveSalina – Bird paradise in peril

Sign the petition to #SaveSalina today! Developers’ bulldozers are threatening to destroy one of Europe’s most important migratory bird resting and breeding sites – the salt pans of Ulcinj Salina on Montenegro’s...
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Europe and Central AsiaMontenegro
Nimrod Mifsud, a BirdLife Malta volunteer for over ten years and their 2018 Nature's Hero
28 Jun 2018

The hero working to make Malta's skies safe for migrant birds

Nature's Hero Nimrod Mifsud, a BirdLife Malta volunteer for over ten years, has shown passion and drive in his efforts to help birds migrating over Malta leave safely without persecution
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Europe and Central AsiaMalta
28 Jun 2018

No escape - Unsustainable European fishing practices harm seabirds

Each year, 200 000 seabirds die in the froth and foam of European waters alone, acciden
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Europe and Central Asia
14 Nov 2017

Greece takes action on three iconic bird species

Roula Trigou from HOS (BirdLife Greece) tells us why the future looks brighter for 3 charismatic bird species in Greece: the Egyptian vulture, the Lesser White-fronted Goose and the Lesser Kestrel.
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Europe and Central AsiaGreece
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